Jean-Gustave Philippeau

Jean-Gustave Philippeau (24 July 1650-4 September 1708) was a politician of the Kingdom of England.

Biography
Jean-Gustave Philippeau was born in Arras, Kingdom of France to a French Huguenot Protestant family. Philippeau was persecuted for his religion, and he moved to Maidstone in the Kingdom of England in 1678. He had a thankless job as a courier and had little pay, but in 1681 he moved to the newly-created Province of Pennsylvania in the British Americas, where people were to be granted religious freedom. Philippeau settled there in the city of Philadelphia, and became one of its leaders. Philippeau became a legislator for the colony in 1683 and remained in that post until his death in 1708.